New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-31
Derby. Mr. GrsvIlle got the anecdots from Disraeli

this effect "My dear Disraeli.-I write to you IN
confidence to tell you that have bteu oheten anu ~
Lord PamerstOn to keep his offer secret. nave tou
nobody Of il but you. self aud my father. anu Dea
you not to menicn it to ANYBODY. Un b,s
this he said he began to copcoct an answer 10 nis
nlad of rather sentimental kind. and conveying
his appreciation of tho course he had taken. ont
he Put pen to paper 9s got sG
to disclosure of the whole thing on when tne
instead Dear staGey v s5a Tau you eon iGl
Dental communication through your ie''er "
Sir -.
This Ia highly characteristic. all the more 80
because IL involves little untruth MT Disraen hau
not seen the letter to Sir whom lie received otan
LEWIS note, though he might have seen IL If he had
cot The Times first Bnt then If his reply had been
true il would have missed The sting. Mr.. Greville
acquired a sort of intimacy with Disraeli, he
hardly knew how, because they had few sentiments
in common. Disraeli, however, undoubtedly felt
tnat Mir. Grevlle might be useful, and, indeed, did
| approach him in 1853 with some tentative over
lures to the Wings from which nothing resulted:
January %. On arriving IN town Yesterday,
| received visit from Disraeii, who said ne had
! come to consult ME In confidence aud 10 ask my
| opinion. by which his own course would be very
much influenced. / was not q title surprised at
this exordlum, but told him l should be glad to
| hear what his object was, and that he was wei
como 10 any opinion he wished for from ME. he
then began a rather bazy discourse. from which
gathered. or at least thought gathered tnat no
thinks the present state of affairs very Serious ana
| the position of the Government very prechri0us
that he is meditatng on the possible chances there
may he for him and his party in the event OF
| Pamerston's fall and knowing that some sort OF
| coalition with some Other party would he innis-
pensable to form any other Government an luea
haa crossed his mind that this mghtbe practicahle
| with some Of the most moderate OF the y" Blgs'
especially with the younger ones such as tran ne
and Argyll and be Wished TO kmD" coua bs IN
any way instrumental in promoting IT and II ana
not think What nv ideas were as to the most
advisable course in order to avert the threatened
Reform. and to give the country a better Govern
ment than this. This with a great deal of verbiaQe
and mixed with digressons about the leading men
of tho present day. seemed TO ME to tie tn sub
stance and object OF his talk. He pro essed to speak
to me of his sentiments without dlsguIae ana
with entire confidence about everythihe, nut l
cannot call to mind that he impaired to me any
thing of tho slightest interest or importance. 10
would be difficult and not very interesting TO write
down our somewhat vague and decoaW converse
ton. but told him that knew very liit OF the
dispositions of any of the men he alluded TO- put
did not believe auy Of them would be partie" to
any such combination as he IoOReu TO- OF separate
from their present colleagues'
A comcal account Is given Of the fall of the
Derby Ministry OF 1858, which went out on the
defeat of Mr.. Disrael's budget. When it was all
over Deane. the Editor of The Times asked Disraeli
why he had introduced such al unfortunate
scheme. The defeated Finance Minister replied
that he had "encaged the Irish Brigade" to carry
tue budget for hIG. They agreed to vote for Il If
he would refer Sharman Crawtords Tenant Right
Bill to the Selct COMMITTEES along w,th.the Govern
ment bill, and he thought this was a very good bar
gain, because he never had any intention of Civ
ing any suite to what had been done with Tenant
Right so that il could not signify" The bargain,
however. was repudated by Lord Derby. who
hotly attacked the IrshmcD, and the whole brigade
voted with tue Opposition. Delare asked Disracl
what he would have done with such budget If he
had carried il. lie said that they wonld have
remOuelled their Government. got Palmerston and
Gladstone C) to JOIN them thrown over those parts
of the budget which proved. unpopular and mau-
aged 90 patch mp very good bill lie never
seems to have given thought" adds Mr.. GrcvIlo.
to any consideration of political morality honesty
or truth in all thst he i'd"
Mr. GIevillc saw something Of the French Court
during the early years of the Empire, and was
treated by Louis Napoleon with marked cvility.
His estimate of the Emperor seems ID have been
substantially sound, and has opinion of the advent
urers who filed the Tuileries is expressed without
reserve. "Called Ache Foui." he writes,
AZ no introduced me 10 Magne. Minister OF
Finance, said TO DO great rogue. Everything
here is intrigue and jobbery. and am told there
is sort of gang. of which Morny is the chief who
oil combine for their purpose and advantage:
Morny, Fould. Magne and Rouher, Minister of
Commerce. They now want to get out B.llault. !
Minister of the Interior, whom they cannot en-
t,rely manage, aud that Ministry il necessary 10
them OIL account Of the railroads. which are under
his mana gomeat" The Qreca, 1t is well known.
liked the Emperor, well pleased with his visit
TO England and still better pleased with Ter visit
70 France. Lord Clarendon told Grcvic that
Napoleon showed perfect knowledge of women in
the means ho took TO captiyate Victoria:
After his visit the Queen talked il all over with
Clare dnn nd \ lac
Emperor knows everything have done and where
have been ever since ! was twelve years old; lie
even I-coIects how | was dressed, and thousand
little details il is extraordinary he should be ac-
auainted WITH" She has never before bren such
a social footing with anvbody. and he has Ap
preached her " tn the familiarity of their equal
positions. and with all the experience and knOvl-
edge OF womankind he has acquired during his long
life passed IN the wor d and IN mixing " 18th every
sort of society She seemed to have played her
par; throughout with great propriety and
Old jerome did not choose TO make his appearance
till lust at the last moment because lie insisted
being treated as king and having the title of
Majeste given hm-a prettnsion Clarendon would
not hear OF her yielding TO-
In Paris the ntimicy.Of the two soverelgns was
carried far that Queen Victoria talked freely to
her host upon such delicate topics as her friendship
for the Orleans family. and demonstrated with him
upon the confscation OF their property. Clarendon
said that Jas Tor himself he liked the Emperor but
was struck with his Incidence and ignorance. The
Queen was extremely civil to Victor Emanuel who
visited England in 1855:
The King and bis people are far better satisfied
with their reception here than III France wherc
under much external ciyility, there ve,y little
cOrdaiity. the tnperor's intimate relations with
Austria rendering him IItte inclined toward the |
PiedmOntese. Here the Qnren wonderfully |
corda and attentive; she got up at Ia the morn-
ing to soc him depart Ills Maj esty appears to he
frghtful in person, but great strong. borly, attn
letic man. bruseue in his manners nnieiined in his
conversation. very loose in his c0ndur IT. and very
eccentric IN his habits When he wat at Paris his
talk ID society amused or terrified everybody, but
here he seems to have been more guarded. Ii was |
amusing all the religious SOC etes fastening
with the addresses to h.m. totally forgetting that
he is the most debauehed and dissouto fellow in |
the world but the fact of MS being excommu nj |
Gated by the Pope and his waging with the |
ecc .es,astical power in his own country covers |
ev.rv sin apainst morality and he IL a GREAT hern |